Science
This Enigmatic Protein Sculpts DNA to Repair Harmful Damage
Sometimes, when something is broken, the first step to fixing it is to break it even more.
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Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
This animation shows a type of gas giant planet known as a hot Jupiter that orbits very close to its star. Finding more of these youthful planets could help astronomers understand how they formed and if they migrate from cooler climes during their lifetimes.
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Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
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NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
On June 18, 2020, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of the large light brown plume of Saharan dust over the North Atlantic Ocean. The image showed that the dust from Africa’s west coast extended almost to the Lesser Antilles in the western North Atlantic Ocean.
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Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
Composite image of Centaurus A, showing the jets emerging from the galaxy’s central black hole, together with the associated gamma radiation.
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Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Cosmic Clock
lasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from space.
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Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes on Enceladus in October 2015.
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Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
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NASA’s IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space
As the Sun wades through the interstellar medium, it generates a hot, dense wave like the wave at the front of a boat coursing through the sea. In this illustration, this is the boundary in darker blue. IBEX has helped scientists determine the shape of the heliosphere, which has a comet-like tail.
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HOPS 383: X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Aix-Marseille University/N. Grosso et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020